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who have bad health care stuatu, who have preexisting condition, get affordable coverage. this is app different and better way to cover individuals with preexisting conditions. nobody wants folks who have a preexisting illness or injury not to be covered. can you really standby the president s pledge that everybody will be taken care of. absolutely. even if a governor, which i m not sure that s ever going to happen takes waiver option, it wouldn t affect anyone with continuous coverage. so despite all those assurances, it will reduce for those just over the poverty line. they could weigh rules against charging higher prices to those with preexisting conditions while setting up so-called high risk pools. speaking to reporters in milwaukee, wisconsin governor floated the idea of seeking a waiver saying, quotes, that s
house plan if states opt out folks with pre-existing conditions can be charged more. given all of that, can you really stand by the president s pledge that everybody will be taken care of? absolutely, chris. and if you break this down, and i ll be very quick. in this bill on pre-existing conditions, 176 million people across this country get employer-based insurance. this does not affect pre-existing conditions for those people. number two, it doesn t affect pre-existing conditions for medicare recipients. it doesn t affect pre-existing conditions for medicaid recipients. now you re down to about 9.5 million people, and it doesn t affect anyone with continuous coverage. even if a governor takes the waiver option, it wouldn t affect anyone with continuous coverage. let s assume there are some people that might not have continuous cover, might not have employer-based chris: there are millions of people we ve put billions, not millions [inaudible conversations] into high risk po
situation that mr. kimmel was describing with his young son. we all agree that should be the case, but we also want to bring down premiums for middle class families. what the waiver option does is allow those states to get rid of the regulations that are driving up the cost for middle class families. the cost that the senator was talking about. $7,000 they are paying for a deductible in a year s time. they can t afford the deductible and they want that to come down as well as protect the situation that they were talking about. the senator will not support the bill as it is now if it makes it to the senate. we should note that. on the high risk pools notion and on preexisting conditions, there is a lot of serious concern that your bill waters down protections for preexisting conditions and it comes from a lot of different places.
option. it s a huge step in the right direction. can you guarantee their health care will not be more expensive, period? for ohio is the state that gets the waiver, i believe that health care policy experts believe premiums will come down. that s why we need the waiver. i would like to do it here, but we don t have the votes for that. we are trying to get the votes that give this waiver option. the white house said you have the votes, but we show you are two votes short of losing this bill. are you confident you will get the two votes? there are a lot of undecideds out there. with the freedom caucus, we brought 20 something new votes to the yes column. we are working with our colleagues to encourage them to support it. it s a good step in the right direction. did they help or hurt the cause and the health care plan